Education
Appoquinimink School District
“The fastest growing school district in the State”
Box 4010, 118 South Sixth Street
Odessa, DE 19730-4010
The Appoquinimink School District (ASD), located in southern New Castle County, Delaware, serves more than 5,700 students in grades K-12. The district includes the communities of Middletown, Odessa and Townsend, as well as areas to the north and south.
At Appoquinimink, students, parents, educators and the community share a common vision about high achievement, a fact which has helped their students earn one of the best academic records in the state. The district's six schools earned a total of four “Superior” and two “Commendable” ratings from the Delaware Department of Education in the Fall of 2001.
Considered a small to mid-size district, Appoquinimink is situated in the heart of the state’s fastest growing region for new home construction. Thanks to the passage of successful voter referendums in 1998 and 2000, the district has kept pace with the growth by remodeling and renovating every school in the system, including approving funding for the construction of two new elementary schools. The first new school, Olive B. Loss Elementary, opened in Fall 2002, followed by a second new elementary school, Brick Mill Elementary in Fall 2003.
The district offers a traditional small-town atmosphere in a location that provides easy access to major business and entertainment centers. Residents are just 30 minutes from Delaware’s largest city (the corporate headquarters for Fortune 500 Companies DuPont, MBNA and AstraZeneca), one hour from the beach, and minutes from nationally recognized colleges and universities.
District Information - 378-5010
Superintendent’s Office - 378-5011
Business Office - 378-5009
Personnel Office - 378-5013
School Nutrition Office - 378-5032
Facilities Management Office - 378-5039
Middletown High School
120 Silver Lake Road, Middletown Office - 378-5250
Redding Intermediate School
201 New Street, Middletown Office - 378-5030
Everett Meredith Middle School
504 South Broad Street, Middletown Office - 378-5001
Brick Mill Elementary School
378 Brick Mill Road, Middletown, DE 19709 Office - 378-5288
Silver Lake Elementary School
200 East Cochran St., Middletown Office - 378-5023
Townsend Elementary School
Main Street, Townsend Office - 378-5020
Cedar Lane Elementary School
1259 Cedar Lane Road, Middletown Office - 378-5253
Olive Loss Elementary
200 Brennan Boulevard, Bear, DE Office - 832-1343
James H. Groves Adult High School
504 South Broad Street, Middletown Office - 378-5037
Appoquinimink Early Childhood Center
502 South Broad Street, Middletown Office - 376-4400
Charter Schools
MOT Charter School (grades pre-K-8)
1156 Levels Road, Middletown, DE Office - 376-5125
Private Schools
Middletown’s location in central Delaware affords access to many private and parochial schools with a 45-minute radius.
St. Andrew’s School (co-educational boarding school, grades 9-12)
Noxontown Pond Road, Middletown Office - 378-9511
Coeducational boarding college-preparatory, arts, and religious studies school, affiliated with Episcopal Church. Founded: 1929. Setting: rural. Students are housed in single-sex dormitories. 2,600-acre campus. 10 buildings on campus. Total enrollment: 285. Upper school average class size: 11. Upper school faculty-student ratio: 1:6.
St. Anne’s Episcopal School (grades pre-K-8)
211 Silver Lake Road, Middletown Office - 378-3179
Co-educational private school that offers instruction in art, computer, drama, foreign languages, language arts, math, music, physical education, science, social studies, and interscholastic sports. Total enrollment: 350 students. Student-teacher ratio is approximately 8:1.
